"Prop 50 will stand, and the Supreme Court, without entirely saying so, is essentially saying "Fair is fair," and political gerrymanders are simply the way of the world. The high court similarly, in December, ruled in favor of Republicans in Texas, where a lower court had temporarily blocked a gerrymandered congressional map there a map authorized not via ballot proposition, but by writ of the Republican legislative majority."
"Governor Gavin Newsom, who spearheaded the Prop 50 effort after Trump essentially decreed that Texas Republicans should squeeze five more House seats out of their state maps, was predictably gleeful on Xitter about the ruling. "Donald Trump said he was entitled' to five more Congressional seats in Texas. He started this redistricting war. He lost, and he'll lose again in November," Newsom wrote."
"As in the Texas case, the argument used was that this was a racially, and not politically motivated gerrymander effort. A lower court ruled last month that Prop 50 was perfectly legal, with a two-judge majority opinion saying "the evidence presented reflects that Proposition 50 was exactly what it was billed as: a political gerrymander designed to flip five Republican-held seats to the Democrats." Those judges cited the Supreme Court's December opinion in their ruling."
Supreme Court denied review of the challenge to California's Prop 50, leaving the measure in place. The one-sentence shadow-docket order provided no explanation, dissents, or vote count. The court previously ruled in December favoring Texas Republicans over a gerrymandered map authorized by the state legislature. Prop 50 was enacted to flip five Republican-held seats and was labeled a political gerrymander by a lower court. A two-judge majority found Prop 50 legal, citing the Supreme Court's December opinion. Governor Gavin Newsom celebrated the outcome and argued Republican claims of Latino voter harm were spurious given unchanged majority-Latino districts.
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